拍品专文
Another circular bamboo tray by this artist, also after Hanabusa Itcho, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. W.257-1916, and the same design appears on an inro in the present catalogue (lot 710) [see 1 below]. The motif appears to derive indirectly from an album-leaf by Itcho in the Okura Skukokan, Tokyo, showing a shishimai [lion dancer] and komuso [travelling monk].
1 Wrangham, E.A., The Index of Inro Artists, (Harehope, Northumberland, 1995), 234
2 Yasumura Toshinobu, Edo meisaku gacho zenshu IV: Kano-ha-Tan'yu, Morikage, Itcho [Masterpieces of painted albums from the Edo period IV: Kano School: Tan'yu, Morikage, Itcho], (Tokyo, 1994), 150 (pl. no. 302)
1 Wrangham, E.A., The Index of Inro Artists, (Harehope, Northumberland, 1995), 234
2 Yasumura Toshinobu, Edo meisaku gacho zenshu IV: Kano-ha-Tan'yu, Morikage, Itcho [Masterpieces of painted albums from the Edo period IV: Kano School: Tan'yu, Morikage, Itcho], (Tokyo, 1994), 150 (pl. no. 302)